I am adamantly opposed to psychologists being allowed to prescribe, and I am not a physician, NP, or PA. If you want to prescribe then go to school to learn about the entire body, because these meds affect the entire body. PA’s, NP’s, and physicians have all done that. Psychologists will not have done that and have no business prescribing.

This is a very bad idea and will not save patients money. Your malpractice insurance will go way up (as it should). You will pass this cost on to your patients.

What are you going to do when you have a patient who has a h/o hypertension or other cardiac issues (which considering the obesity problem today, would mean a whole lot of your patients)? Are you going to order labs, an EKG, etc? Would you even know how to read an EKG? Would you know what the lab results mean? Or even what labs to order in the first place? If you’re prescribing meds that affect the heart, etc, then you darn well better know what tests to order to monitor the patient and what the test results mean.

I really, really hope you guys are prevented from prescribing.